Organic chemistry

Carbon compounds: structure, reactivity, mechanisms and the art of building molecules.

21 topics

All levels Lower secondary Upper secondary Undergraduate Advanced Research

Everyday organic chemistry (lower secondary)

Foundations

Classes of compounds

Reaction mechanisms

Organic synthesis

Heterocycles and natural products

Carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, natural polymers

Key chemists

Carl Wilhelm Scheele Michael Faraday Friedrich Wöhler Justus von Liebig Louis Pasteur August Kekulé Adolf von Baeyer Otto Wallach